English: Annual plants are those plants that germinate, flowers, and dies in a year or a season. Whenever I went to Sungai Buluh nurseries, I always notice that city buyers always choose plants with showy flowers and most of these plants are annual. Annual plants are produce for decoration at certain strategic location in the city, important buildings and public parks, and the annual plants needs to be replaced every two to three weeks. Among the annual plant that are usually used are tagates, celosia, impatiens, coleus, pelargonium, petunia etc.

Sunflowers Helianthus annuus are also annual plants native to the Americas, the oil extracted from the seeds are used as cooking oil and for the production of margarine and bio-diesel.